By recognising what the struggle in your communication, is actually all about.In couples therapy with a registered psychologist, you can expect to learn ways to stop this dysfunctional communication style: If it is an old argument and the man cannot find a new way of talking about it, he will retreat into silence. Put simply, “when you are unhappy, I am unhappy”. It hurts the male when he sees the female upset.Most men want to treat women with respect, and silence helps us keep our manners. We might get angry and do something we should not do.We might feel we have less vocabulary, or that we might lose the argument. The male feels he cannot win or might not get heard.Being silent prevents this sense of loss of our masculinity. If we have not been trained to talk about such emotions, or we have the feeling that to talk about them is effeminate or less-than masculine, then we fear that when we do talk about them, you might not like us anymore.

Men don’t talk about emotions and feelings.

Here are some of the most common reasons why men retreat into silence: The person on the receiving end of the silence can feel abandoned and rejected, frustrated and even discouraged. It becomes a pattern of retreat (into silence), and pursuit (for an answer), and it can be quite damaging to the relationship. Usually, the female partner will persist in trying to extract an answer, reason or explanation – but the male will withdraw and retreat even further, into silence.

because he always does it, or it has become his normal communication style.

The partner in the relationship can get very angry about this silence, for a number of reasons: When I conduct couple therapy sessions, it is sometimes the case that the man has developed a coping strategy called silence.

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